Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was held in Pune in 1878 under the chairmanship of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade.

Conferences held

Following is the list of the conferences with year and venue:[1][2]

EditionYearLocationPresident
1st1878PuneMahadev Govind Ranade[3]
-1879–1884No Conference
2nd1885PuneKrushna Shastri Rajwade[3]
1886–1904No Conference
3rd1905SataraRaghunath Pandurang Karandikar[3]
4th1906PuneGovind Vaman Kanitkar[3]
5th1907PuneVishnu Moreshwar Mahajani[3]
6th1908PuneChintaman Vinayak Vaidya[3]
7th1909BarodaKanhoba Ranchhodadas Kirtikar[3]
-1910–1911No Conference
8th1912AkolaHari Narayan Apte[4][3]
-1913–1914No Conference
9th1915MumbaiGangadhar Patwardhan[3]
-1916No Conference
10th1917IndoreGanesh Janardan Agashe
-1918–1920No Conference
11th1921BarodaNarasimha Chintaman Kelkar
-1922–1925No Conference
12th1926MumbaiMadhav Vinayak Kibe
13th1927PuneShripad Krushna Kolhatkar
14th1928GwaliorMadhav Shrihari Aney
15th1929BelgaumShivram Mahadev Paranjape
16th1930MargaoVaman Malhar Joshi
17th1931HyderabadShridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
18th1932KolhapurSayajirao Gayakwad
19th1933NagpurKrushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar
20th1934BarodaNarayan Govind Chapekar
21st1935IndoreBhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi
22nd1936JalgaonMadhav Trimbak Patwardhan
-1937No Conference
23rd1938MumbaiVinayak Damodar Savarkar[5]
24th1939AhmednagarDatto Vaman Potdar
25th1940RatnagiriNarayan Sitaram Phadke
26th1941SolapurVishnu Sakharam Khandekar
27th1942NashikPrahlad Keshav Atre
28th1943SangliShripad Mahadev Mate
29th1944DhuleBhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
-1945No Conference
30th1946BelgaumGajanan Tryambak Madkholkar
31st1947HyderabadNarahar Raghunath Phatak
-1948No Conference
32nd1949PuneShankar Dattatraya Javdekar io
33rd1950MumbaiYashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
34th1951KarwarAnant Kakba Priyolkar
35th1952AmalnerKrushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni
36th1953AhmedabadViththal Dattatreya Ghate
37th1954DelhiLaxmanshastri Balaji Joshi
38th1955PandharpurShankar Damodar Pendse
-1956No Conference
39th1957AurangabadAnant Atmaram Kanekar
40th1958MalvanAtmaram Ravaji Deshpande
41st1959MirajShrikrushna Keshav Kshirsagar
42nd1960ThaneRamchandra Shripad Jog
43rd1961GwaliorKusumavati Deshpande
44th1962SataraNarahar Vishnu Gadgil
-1963No Conference
45th1964MargaoVishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
46th1965HyderabadWaman Lakshman Kulkarni
-1966No Conference
47th1967BhopalVishnu Bhikaji Kolte
-1968No Conference
48th1969WardhaPurushottam Shivram Rege
-1970–1972No Conference
49th1973YavatmalGajanan Digambar Madgulkar
50st1974IchalkaranjiPurushottam Laxman Deshpande
51st1975KaradDurga Bhagwat
-1976No Conference
52nd1977PunePurushottam Bhaskar Bhave
-1978No Conference
53rd1979ChandrapurVaman Krushna Chorghade
54th1980BarshiGangadhar Balkrushna Sardar
55th1981
(February)
AkolaGopal Nilkanth Dandekar[6]
56th1981
(December)
RaipurGangadhar Gopal Gadgil
57th1983AmbejogaiVyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar
58th1984JalgaonShankar Ramchandra Kharat
59th1985NandedShankar Babaji Patil
60th1986MumbaiVishram Bedekar[6]
-1987No Conference
61st1988ThaneVasant Kanetkar
62nd1989AmravatiKeshav Jagannath Purohit
63rd1990
(January)
PuneYusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan
64th1990
(December)
RatnagiriMadhu Mangesh Karnik
65th1992KolhapurRamesh Mantri
66th1993SataraVidyadhar Gokhale
67th1994PanajiRam Balkrushna Shewalkar[6][7]
68th1995ParbhaniNarayan Gangaram Surve
69th1996AlandiShanta Shelke[8]
70st1997AhmednagarNagnath S. Inamdar
71st1998Parali VaijnathDattaram Maruti Mirasdar
72nd1999MumbaiVasant Bapat
73rd2000BelgaumYashawant Dinkar Phadke
74th2001IndoreVijaya Rajadhyaksha
75th2002PuneRajendra Banhatti
76th2003KaradSubhash Bhende
77th2004AurangabadR. G. Jadhav
78th2005NashikKeshav Tanaji Meshram
79th2006SolapurMaruti Chitampalli
80th2007NagpurArun Sadhu[6]
81st2008SangliMadhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar
82nd2009MahabaleshwarAnand Ratan Yadav
83rd2010PuneDattatraya Bhikaji Kulkarni
84th2011ThaneUttam Kamble
85th2012ChandrapurVasant Abaji Dahake[9]
86th2013ChiplunNagnath Kottapalle[10]
87th2014SaswadF. M. Shinde[11][12]
88th2015Ghuman, PunjabDr. Sadanand More[13][14][15][16][17][18]
89th2016Pimpri-ChinchwadDr. Shripal Sabnis [19]
90th2017DombivliDr. Akshaykumar Kale[20][21][22]
91st2018Baroda[23][24]Lakshmikant Deshmukh[25]
92nd2019Yavatmal[26]Aruna Ramchandra Dhere[27]
93rd2020OsmanabadFrancis D'Britto[28]
94th2021NashikJayant Narlikar[29]
95th2022UdgirBharat Sasane[30]
96th2023WardhaJustice (Retd.) Narendra Chapalgaokar[31]
97th2024jalgaonravindra shobhane

Women presidents

Only five women have been the presidents of the Sammelan to date:

YearLocationPresident
1961GwaliorKusumavati Deshpande[6]
1975KaradDurga Bhagwat[6]
1996AlandiShanta Shelke[6]
2001IndoreVijaya Rajadhyaksha[6]
2019YavatmalAruna Ramchandra Dhere[27]

References